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..watch out its a trap

each morn i pray that all beans

be free from sorrow...

 

 

be free from sorrow...

or make that sorrow your home

pray for peas on earth.

 

(continuing the leguminous revelation of the truth behind existence).

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be free from sorrow...

or make that sorrow your home

pray for peas on earth.

 

(continuing the leguminous revelation of the truth behind existence).

 

pray for peas on earth

oats peas beans and barley grow

life-force testimony

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pray for peas on earth

oats peas beans and barley grow

life-force testimony

 

Life-force testimony (6)

My ears look like kidney beans

No coincidence

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My ears look like kidney beans

No coincidence

 

No coincidence

you made pulse soup after dark

lentil is the night.

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No coincidence

you made pulse soup after dark

lentil is the night.

lentil is the night

boogie till the break of dawn

Frankie goes downtown...

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Just found this haiku chain. (I've been spending most of my taobums time on the Flying Phoenix Chi Kung discussion thread.) I actually wrote this on March 2 after I got totally moonstruck doing Tai Chi sword under the virgo-pisces full moon on that preceding Sunday evening. But am glad I can whip it out now to share:

 

 

Dismissed from Heaven,

He embraced the river's moon.

Poet transcendent.

 

 

It's my homage to Li Bai, towering Taoist genius (and China's most famous poet/wino/humanitarian) who wrote gems like this spontaneously and without correction while often totally sauced :D :

 

 

花間一壺酒。 A cup of wine, under the flowering trees;

 

獨酌無相親。 I drink alone, for no friend is near.

 

舉杯邀明月。 Raising my cup I beckon the bright moon,

 

對影成三人。 For her, with my shadow, will make three people.

 

月既不解飲。 The moon, alas, is no drinker of wine;

 

影徒隨我身。 Listless, my shadow creeps about at my side.

 

暫伴月將影。 Yet with the moon as friend and the shadow as slave

 

行樂須及春。 I must make merry before the Spring is spent.

 

我歌月徘徊。 To the songs I sing the moon flickers her beams;

 

我舞影零亂。 In the dance I weave my shadow tangles and breaks.

 

醒時同交歡。 While we were sober, three shared the fun

 

醉後各分散。 Now we are drunk, each goes their way.

 

永結無情遊。 May we long share our eternal friendship,

 

相期邈雲漢。 And meet at last on the Cloudy River of the sky.

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Dismissed from Heaven,

He embraced the river's moon.

Poet transcendent.

 

 

Frankie goes downtown

and drinks up the entire river

poet transcendent

 

poet transcendent

tries to keep upright, but sinks

rust bucket in slop

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Dismissed from Heaven,

He embraced the river's moon.

Poet transcendent.

 

 

Frankie goes downtown

and drinks up the entire river

poet transcendent

 

poet transcendent

tries to keep upright, but sinks

rust bucket in slop

 

 

 

rust bucket in slop

slop in the rust bucket-oh,

this life friends,this life...

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ame='Mark Foote' date='24 April 2010 - 09:31 PM' timestamp='1272169887' post='187058']

 

 

 

 

rust bucket in slop

slop in the rust bucket-oh,

this life friends,this life...

this life friends, this life

eat all the baked beans you can

fart till kingdom come...

 

 

:lol: :lol:

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this life friends, this life

eat all the baked beans you can

fart till kingdom come...

 

 

:lol: :lol:

 

fart till kingdom come

still more where that came from. Soup.

goin' to be rainin'...

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this life friends, this life

eat all the baked beans you can

fart till kingdom come...

 

 

:lol: :lol:

 

 

"Man, who cut the cheese?? :blink:

I think my eyes are burning!!" :wacko:

Vintage Cheech and Chong.

Edited by zen-bear

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some form is reborn

dragon, phoenix, united

eternity now

 

 

 

 

F. Y. I., check out:

Flying Phoenix Chi Kung thread

...here on the Forum.

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"Man, who cut the cheese?? :blink:

I think my eyes are burning!!" :wacko:

Vintage Cheech and Chong.

How about:

 

goin' to be raining

but man who cuts cheese burnt eyes

vintage Cheech and Chong.

 

...

 

 

vintage Cheech and Chong

informed of Flying Phoenix

delicious Tao buns...

 

 

 

(here's me quietly slotting in the 'but' - hopefully goes unnoticed! Could have sworn i counted 7 earlier hehe...)

Edited by CowTao

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How about:

 

goin' to be raining

man who cuts cheese burnt eyes

vintage Cheech and Chong.

 

...

 

 

vintage Cheech and Chong

informed of Flying Phoenix

delicious Tao buns...

 

(nice splice!)

 

delicious Tao buns

fresh and warm, buttered with eggs

mmmmm, so good, so bad!

 

(newcomers, please note that you can help us by starting your poem with the last line of the preceding haiku- that's how we get to know and love one another, on the haiku thread!)

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(nice splice!)

 

delicious Tao buns

fresh and warm, buttered with eggs

mmmmm, so good, so bad!

 

(newcomers, please note that you can help us by starting your poem with the last line of the preceding haiku- that's how we get to know and love one another, on the haiku thread!)

Yes.. Thanks Mark, that would be helpful indeed! But all's well cos the 'old hands' are all pretty swell! :D

 

 

mmmmm, so good, so bad!

buttered, them croissants, yummy

fresh, soft and tasty...

Edited by CowTao

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Yes.. Thanks Mark, that would be helpful indeed! But all's well cos the 'old hands' are all pretty swell! :D

 

 

mmmmm, so good, so bad!

buttered, them croissants, yummy

fresh, soft and tasty...

 

Fresh, soft and tasty

Could describe a lot of things.

Shall we dance, my dear?

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Fresh, soft and tasty

Could describe a lot of things.

Shall we dance, my dear?

 

Shall we dance, my dear?

We two can go to tango

Argentinian.

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Argentinian

Latin rhythms eternal theme

and the tao of dance

 

 

and the tao of dance

threads weave, chains link, meanings sWay

all in time, timeless

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and the tao of dance

threads weave, chains link, meanings sWay

all in time, timeless

 

all in time, timeless

all in perfect metric form

when you get it right

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all in time, timeless

all in perfect metric form

when you get it right

when you get it right

high defines low, so be it

that Man shall be chained...

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when you get it right

high defines low, so be it

that Man shall be chained...

 

that Man shall be chained

or freed, by his own nature

like the weeds blooming

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that Man shall be chained

or freed, by his own nature

like the weeds blooming

 

like the weeds blooming

where I sowed my greatest hopes

a wild west garden.

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like the weeds blooming

where I sowed my greatest hopes

a wild west garden.

a wild west garden

with tumbleweeds rollin' east

destined for Honshu...

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a wild west garden

with tumbleweeds rollin' east

destined for Honshu...

 

destined for Honshu

on aesthetics, Bullet Trains

and fine Kyushu

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